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A profound, luminous masterpiece by one of Ireland''s greatest playwrights.

This edition was published in 2023 with a beautifully redesigned text and cover, to coincide with the National Theatre'' revival.

It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five adult Mundy sisters; their older brother, a missionary priest returned from Uganda; and the youngest sister's seven-year-old son, Michael. Over the course of two days in the family's life, Brian Friel evokes not only the interior world of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape public and private, Christian and pagan of which they are nonetheless a part.

There is no doubting we are in the thrall of as masterly a dramatist as the theatre possesses.' The Times

Dancing at Lughnasa

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 6 April 2023
      ISBN-13 9780571385379
      978-0571385379
      ISBN-10 0571385370
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A profound, luminous masterpiece by one of Ireland''s greatest playwrights.

      This edition was published in 2023 with a beautifully redesigned text and cover, to coincide with the National Theatre'' revival.

      It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five adult Mundy sisters; their older brother, a missionary priest returned from Uganda; and the youngest sister's seven-year-old son, Michael. Over the course of two days in the family's life, Brian Friel evokes not only the interior world of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape public and private, Christian and pagan of which they are nonetheless a part.

      There is no doubting we are in the thrall of as masterly a dramatist as the theatre possesses.' The Times

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